Corrupt Sheriffs

Now, I know what you are thinking, "Not another thread about how abooosive the sheriffs are and how they are so corrupt, etc."

I promise, that's not what I'm going to talk about here.

In the real Wild West, sheriffs were actually very corrupt. In fact, the entire system of law in the West was corrupt. Sheriffs were bribed by criminals, horse thieves, cattle thieves, etc. The sheriffs would either let these criminals walk, or refuse to arrest them in the first place. This led to the practice of lynching; average citizens taking the law into their own hands and hanging these criminals because the sheriffs wouldn't even arrest them.

I get annoyed about how many threads are made complaining about the sheriffs in this game when almost all of them are doing a great job. I have never met an abusive sheriff in all my wildwest experience. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe there just are hardly any of them. I think its the latter, and I'm sure many other players think the same.

So next time you go crying to your mother about abusive sheriffs, think to yourself, "maybe they are actually doing their role play rank the right way, and acting like sheriffs in the real Wild West."

 

I agree that this is minecraft, not real life, and shouldn't be taken too seriously. However, this post was meant to introduce a new perspective to those of our community who need help managing their unjustified anger against sheriffs. Maybe if those people (not mentioning any names) thought for a second that the sheriffs this system was modeled after were corrupt and self serving (as almost all humans are. Well, maybe not corrupt, but diffidently self serving), maybe, just maybe, they would think before filling the chat with their rants.

As to your point on the sheriff handbook, I agree that the sheriffs should follow the rules that were set out for them. However, the sheriffs are just teenage humans, and teenage humans break rules (whether on purpose or accidentally). I feel that instead of screaming abuse every time a sheriff does something questionable, us normal players should give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

nonono, this was not a suggestion . It was just a history lesson for our not-so-educated members lol. although, now that I think of it, there could be some kinda option for regular players to gang up on a rogue and lynch him. Not quite sure how that would work though.

@iEBKN most sheriffs in the west were bribed by gangs, not just in the Al Capone instance. This is a commonly known history fact. While there were honest sheriffs, completely honest sheriffs were few and far between. The law and order in the wast was mainly held up by regular citizens through lynching and other methods. 1 sheriff cannot take down an entire gang, which is why he would need the help of the other civilians.

 

@iMacro you are right. Thats part of the point I was trying to make to @iEBKN. The Al Capone instance was not really what I was getting at. I was talking about the wild west before the cities made it there; the wild west of cattle ranches and small towns, of gangs and sheriffs.

 

It probably won't ever become ok to abuse the sheriff role, but I was just introducing a perspective, not saying it was a good thing or that it should be a server idea. Glad someone liked my mind reading tactics